TheNew York Times–bestselling author ofFind MeandCall Me by Your Namereturns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and worksIrrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened . . .André Aciman returns to the essay form inHomo Irrealis to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and